<p>So many people get waitlisted… so do I</p>
<p>Colleges00701 keep your head up. admissions is a crapshoot. things can easily turn around.</p>
<p>waitlist at wash u</p>
<p>accepted at umd honors, bing, bu honors, uva
waiting on jhu, tufts, cornell, columbia, brown</p>
<p>^^^ Its hard to keep my head up, when I get rejected/waitlisted from most of my schools…</p>
<p>Colleges - there was an article in the Washington Post about helping you get a positive result off the waitlist:</p>
<p>[Five</a> Ways to Survive the April College Crunch - Class Struggle - Jay Mathews on Education](<a href=“http://voices.washingtonpost.com/class-struggle/2009/03/five_ways_to_survive_the_april.html]Five”>http://voices.washingtonpost.com/class-struggle/2009/03/five_ways_to_survive_the_april.html)</p>
<p>I think his example of the “Missing Sock Detective Agency” is lame, but the advice is sound otherwise.</p>
<p>who ever said college is a crap shoot was definitley right</p>
<p>waitlisted: washu and tulane
accepted: northwestern, emory, vandy, umich (oos), udel (honors) and some other state schools with scholarship
rejected: duke</p>
<p>total crapshoot.</p>
<p>waitlisted: washu, claremont mckenna
accepted: boston college (waiting on FA), umich (30K), villanova (full ride)
rejected: rice (my #1)
still waiting on: emory, georgetown, penn</p>
<p>^^^ Thanks for the advice, its going to help me a lot, hopefully i won’t end up at my state school…</p>
<p>Colleges - best of luck, let us know how it turns out, either way. We are totally voyeuristic like that, lol. Also, when you access that article I mentioned, be sure to look at the comments. There was an interesting one from a guy that apparently wrote a book or something about this stuff, and he suggests some even more aggresive tactics. Use your instincts though, because sometimes if this stuff is completely against your personality it can backfire. At the same time, realize that you have little to lose as long as you act positive and mature. Again, good luck!</p>
<p>^^^ thanks, I was waitlisted at emory, little hope for vandy and cornell…</p>
<p>WashU waitlist
Yale admit
Columbia likely letter
Also into other good schools like Duke, Northwestern, UT-Austin</p>
<p>So waitlistees, never fear!</p>
<p>same! Waitlist WashU but accepted Northwestern and Chicago. so don’t lose hope =)</p>
<p>What percentage of waitlistees actually get accepted? Sorry, I know I should probably go read the website, but I’m too lazy 
WashU isn’t my first choice, so I’m not all that bummed about getting waitlisted.</p>
<p>waitlisted: wustl, boston college, pitzer
accepted: boston university, ucsb, santa clara, university of arizona
rejected: wesleyan, amherst, swarthmore, usc, williams</p>
<p>and apparently WUSTL tends to go to their waitlist (unlike OTHER schools…like, I don’t know, boston college, where I was also waitlisted).</p>
<p>they dont release that info. i dont think.</p>
<p>Anything I can do to get off the WL for wash univ st. louis?</p>
<p>Yes, put in a little effort and read the threads. There have been several posts about how to improve your chances of getting accepted from the WL. See Post #'s 45 and 49 on this thread, for example.</p>
<p>^^^ Thanks for all the help fallenchemist. I plan on doing everything on that page to help my chances… I will visit, print my letter on good paper, maybe send in a picture of myself, contact my regional admissions counselor, contact the alumni who interviewed me, and send in updated grades, resume, recommendations from counselor and a teacher, along with taking myself off the financial aid list. The only school I was accepted to was Texas A&M, do you think I should tell these schools that?</p>
<p>Before you do anything - take a detailed look at your original application. Did it tell a story and if so did it tell the story that you wanted it to tell? How did it make you different or stand out from other applicants? It is not just about the numbers at WashU. Take an honest look. Once you have the first questions figured out, go back and create the story you should have had in your original application. Condense that into a short essay and send it to your admissions rep. If you don’t know who that is, then find out immediately. Your admissions rep is your advocate and the key to anything happening with your file. In regard to the esaay; you only have the first 2 or 3 sentences to get someones attention. If you don’t grab their attention right off the bat - it is a lost cause. Give WashU a reason to want you. The question to be answered is “what can/will you do for WashU not what WashU will do for you” (shades of Kennedy). How will you contribute, add, change the campus atmosphere - just make sure you think tour response through before you answer or send in anything. Good luck - differentiate and stand out.</p>
<p>Colleges: No, I don’t think there is any reason to tell them that A&M was the only place you were accepted, out of context it comes across negatively. ST2 re-emphasizes and amplifies many of the points, I only slightly disagree with my friend on the “…what Wash U will do for you” point. While I agree that the emphsis has to be on what you bring to the school (sing? dance? cure cancer?), the nature of universities is that they like to feel that they can do something for their students that is also somewhat unique. If you can identify a facet of Wash U that is, if not totally unique (few places could claim that), then pretty special for you. Makes a school feel good about itself. For example, Wash U has some of the best accopella (sp?) groups in the country. If you happen to be an excellent singer, that is a good one. Not that it would be your main point of course, but put in at the right point it can be pretty effective. If it isn’t singing, then hopefully something either academic or extracurricular that would enhance both you and the school.</p>